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Hefen

What brought me to the woods was the prospect of living on earth with nothing between me and the earth-----none of the electronic gibber-jabber. I craved directness and quiet. What brought me to the woods was an impulse to get lost, to almost literally be off the map. America was vast and a fair amount of it still looked as though not many people lived there. I liked the prospect of thinking about land not in terms of building lots but acres. What brought me to the woods was generational. My wife and I were part of the back-to-the-land movement of the Sixties and Seventies, the little tide of people who wanted to return to a countryside they had never experienced. What brought me to the woods was romanticism. I want to feel elemental sublimity, the full force of the stars and rain and wind. What brought me to then woods was pragmatism. I wanted to learn how to take care of myself. What brought me to the woods was my being an urban Jew who was ready to leave behind the vestiges of assimilated religion and culture that had been bequeathed to me. I wasn’t ashamed of it. I craved, however, something different from the largely asphalt landscape I grew up in. what brought me to then woods was the longing to be with words in an undistracted place. “Woods” and “words” were almost identical.
我来到树林是为了远离电子杂音，与地球和谐无间的相处。我需要指引，我渴望宁静。我来到树林是为了让自己消失，从地球上完全的消失。美国地域辽阔，但很多地方仍然没有许多人居住。我喜欢根据土地面积的大小而不是土地上建筑物的多少来评价土地。我来到树林是为了祖先的遗承，我和我的妻子都参加了60-70年代的“重返乡村”运动——重回我们向往的而从来没有体验过的祖先过的乡村生活。我来到树林是为了浪漫。我想去体验人类最初的下意识行为，追寻星星和风雨的所有奥秘。我来到树林是为了更好的掌握实用主义。我想去学习怎样更好的照顾自己。我来到树林是因为我正逐渐成为一个远离尘世的却居住在城市的犹太人，我并不以此为耻。我想过一种不同于我童年所过的生活，在一个不是童年居住的地方。我来到树林是为了找一个清净的地方潜心研究文学。文学和树林其实很像，它们都需要一个安静的环境。